New, impressive data breach for LinkedIn, the social network dedicated to work and professionals: second as reported by Privacy Sharks (and later confirmed by many other specialized sites), they would have been data of about 700 million subscribers were violated, that is, over 92% of the total. Virtually everyone, in short.
Though from LinkedIn were quick to say that “this is not a data breach” and that “the data have been extrapolated from LinkedIn and other sources” (what is called scraping), the fact remains that the information on telephone numbers, addresses (email and physical), positioning data, accounts and usernames on other social networks, gender, employer and even the salary of members were present on LinkedIn, now they are for sale online at raidforums.com and that according to the verifications conducted by Privacy Sharks this information would be true and up to date.
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With 3 attacks discovered in a month, it’s time to take ransomware seriously
by Raffaele Angius
The company explained that it is “at work to reconstruct what happened”, recalling that “we constantly work so that the privacy of our members is always protected” (even if the data of about half a billion of them were breached last April), but the advice is obviously to change the password of your profile on LinkedIn: even a small part of this personal data can be used to flood the inboxes of victims of unwanted mail, advertising and spam, but also to groped identity theft, per phishing or other online scams.
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